The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 46
‘“He was only trying to kiss you,” said the hare, “and you bit him, and of course that made him cross.”
Who acts: lion, hare, you · What happens: try, kiss, say, bit, make, cross · To what, where: you, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, hare, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 trying | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trying | punct |
| 3 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trying | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 trying | advmod |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kiss | mark |
| 8 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trying | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 kiss | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trying | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trying | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bit | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bit | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bit | nsubj |
| 19 | bit | bit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bit | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 of | fixed |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 made | obl |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bit | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | obj |
| 28 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | past · progressive | lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kiss not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | lion not said here | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bit in a quote | present | you | lion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | past | you not said here | lion | of that | tree rules | |||
| 6 | cross in a quote | infinitive | lion not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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